On Monday 14 Jun 2004 15:48, David A. Ferguson wrote:
> Where to report incorect hardware identification?
>
> Mandrake 10 official is loading the wrong ethernet driver.  The text
> in the 'Notice' is correct.  It is a:
>
>     Davicom Ethernet 100/10 MBit DM1902
>
> The 'tulip' driver is incorrectly loaded.  The proper driver is
> 'dmfe'.  I think the Davicom is based on a tuplip core so the
> tulip driver almost works.  Well at least it loads, but you can't
> transfer data with it.  I am doing a network install and I can't even
> get it to get a DHCP address.
>
> Anyway, the correct driver is 'dmfe'.  By using expert mode I can
> manually pick this driver and everything works fine.
>
> Who/where/how do I report this small configuration error so that
> others can benifit?
>
> Here are some relavent lines from the log:
> * PCI: device 1282 9102 needs full pci probe
> * PCI: device is actually 1282 9102 0291 8212
> * PCI: device 1282 9102 ffff ffff is "Davicom|Ethernet 100/10 MBit
>        DM9102", driver is tulip
> * have to insmod tulip
> * needs tulip
> *       succeeded tulip
> * NET: alias eth0 tulip
>
> Thanks...David

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derek
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